Compelling people: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential exists in the rarefied air of self-help books that might actually help you. Most books of these type contain a thesis statement that you understand within the first 40 pages. The next X number of pages are the author(s) filling out their quota for his or …

Reading The Rspec book is a lot like testing itself. A bit of a chore, but in the end you hopefully are better off for it. Additionally, the book covers much more than Rspec, and focuses greatly on behavior-driven development and Cucumber. Finally it is straight from the horse’s mouth, as many of the authors …

Eloquent Ruby

By: Russ Olsen

Eloquent Ruby is an essential read for any aspiring or current ruby programmer. I think it serves particularly well as as an “intro” text to Ruby for those who have other programming experience and/or Ruby experience. Personally, I am often bored by intro texts, and lose intrest …